Vortex Domain Walls in Ferroelectrics
Abstract
Controlling the domain formation in ferroelectric materials at the nanoscale is a fertile ground to explore emergent phenomena and their technological prospects. For example, charged ferroelectric domain walls in BiFeO3 and ErMnO3 exhibit significantly enhanced conductivity which could serve as the foundation for next-generation circuits. In this work, we describe a concept in which polar vortices perform the same role as a ferroelectric domain wall in classical domain structures with the key difference being that the polar vortices can accommodate charged (i.e., head-to-head and tail-to-tail) domains, for example, in ferroelectric PbTiO3/dielectric SrTiO3 superlattices. Such a vortex domain wall structure can be manipulated in a reversible fashion under an external applied field.
- Authors:
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[1];
- Zhejiang Univ. (China)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Univ. de Cantabria, Santander (Spain)
- Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division (MSE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1880840
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1806304; OSTI ID: 1806307; OSTI ID: 1840942
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0020145; AC02-05CH11231; SC0012375; ACI-1548562; ACI-1445606; DMR-170006
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nano Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 21; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 1530-6984
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Vortex domain wall; Ferroelectric superlattices; Phase-field simulations; Charged domain wall; Chemical structure; Deposition; Polarization; Layers; Lattices
Citation Formats
Hong, Zijian, Das, Sujit, Nelson, Christopher, Yadav, Ajay, Wu, Yongjun, Junquera, Javier, Chen, Long-Qing, Martin, Lane W., and Ramesh, Ramamoorthy. Vortex Domain Walls in Ferroelectrics. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00404.
Hong, Zijian, Das, Sujit, Nelson, Christopher, Yadav, Ajay, Wu, Yongjun, Junquera, Javier, Chen, Long-Qing, Martin, Lane W., & Ramesh, Ramamoorthy. Vortex Domain Walls in Ferroelectrics. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00404
Hong, Zijian, Das, Sujit, Nelson, Christopher, Yadav, Ajay, Wu, Yongjun, Junquera, Javier, Chen, Long-Qing, Martin, Lane W., and Ramesh, Ramamoorthy. Mon .
"Vortex Domain Walls in Ferroelectrics". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00404. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1880840.
@article{osti_1880840,
title = {Vortex Domain Walls in Ferroelectrics},
author = {Hong, Zijian and Das, Sujit and Nelson, Christopher and Yadav, Ajay and Wu, Yongjun and Junquera, Javier and Chen, Long-Qing and Martin, Lane W. and Ramesh, Ramamoorthy},
abstractNote = {Controlling the domain formation in ferroelectric materials at the nanoscale is a fertile ground to explore emergent phenomena and their technological prospects. For example, charged ferroelectric domain walls in BiFeO3 and ErMnO3 exhibit significantly enhanced conductivity which could serve as the foundation for next-generation circuits. In this work, we describe a concept in which polar vortices perform the same role as a ferroelectric domain wall in classical domain structures with the key difference being that the polar vortices can accommodate charged (i.e., head-to-head and tail-to-tail) domains, for example, in ferroelectric PbTiO3/dielectric SrTiO3 superlattices. Such a vortex domain wall structure can be manipulated in a reversible fashion under an external applied field.},
doi = {10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00404},
journal = {Nano Letters},
number = 8,
volume = 21,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Apr 19 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Mon Apr 19 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
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